The University Of Nebraska Is Paying Its Successful Football Coach A Lot Of Money To Go Away

Bo Pelini won a lot of
games at Nebraska but it wasn't enough.Jamie Squire/Getty Images

The University of Nebraska has fired Bo Pelini after seven
seasons as their football coach and the move is a costly one for
the school.

Nebraska will pay Pelini $150,000 per month for the next four
years and three months ($7.65 million). That amount can be
reduced if Pelini finds "substantially comparable employment"
according to Dan Wolken of USAToday.com.

What is curious about the firing is that Pelini has been a
successful coach at Nebraska. However, this move is just the
latest example that the landscape of coaching in college football
is becoming more like the NFL all the time.

It was not long ago when top coaches often had to weigh the
higher salaries of coaching in the NFL against less money and
more job security coaching in college.

Nebraska won at least nine games in each of Pelini's seven
seasons including three seasons with ten wins. However, that
wasn't good enough for a program that feels they should be
contending for a national championship every year.

Athletic director Shawn Eichorst made this clear at the press
conference announcing the decision when he stated "we weren't
good enough in games that mattered against championship-caliber
opponents."

In other words, job security in college football is a thing of
the past.